Don’t Look, Don’t See: Time for Honest Media Reporting on Impacts of Pesticides

January 18, 2020

The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from vehicles and glaucoma. It stated that according to a new study air pollution i…

From Dollar Hegemony to Global Warming: Globalization, Glyphosate, and Doctrines of Consent

June 16, 2019

Opinion

There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. This accelerated when the USSR ended and has resulted in the ‘neoliberal globalizati…

Glyphosate Worse Than We Could Imagine

April 17, 2019

Opinion

As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of…

2019 Science Award Retracted Amid Controversy Over Glyphosate’s Danger

March 9, 2019

Science

Since 1980, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of several journals, including Science — has presented an annual award…

New Studies Confirm Dangers of Glyphosate

February 28, 2019

Opinion

Since the 1960s uproar over the dangers of widespread agriculture use of the weed killer, DDT, no other herbicide or agriculture chemical has stirred as much widespread opposition as glyphosate. Glyph…

Roundup for Breakfast: Monsanto’s Weed Killer Found in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled

October 26, 2018

Opinion

A second round of tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer in every sample of popular oat-based cereal and other oat-based fo…

Bugocalypse Now! As Planet Faces Ecological Collapse, Monsanto Shrugs

October 24, 2018

Opinion

While it lacks the same Hollywood punch as an asteroid scoring a direct hit on planet Earth, or a tidal wave wiping out New York City, the mass extinction of insects would be no less catastrophic to h…

From GM Potatoes to Glyphosate: Regulatory Delinquency and Toxic Agriculture

October 15, 2018

Opinion

Food and environment campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just produced the report ‘Shockingly high levels of weedkiller found in popular breakfast cereals marketed for British children’. In this 68-page …